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I recently wrote about my home VPN setup in a previous HN thread [1]. But to answer your question, the additional use-cases I have are: 1. I connect to my hom
by bhauer 9y ago
I recently wrote about my home VPN setup in a previous HN thread [1]. But to answer your question, the additional use-cases I have are:
1. I connect to my home file server from all of my devices. This allows me to access my singular master file system from everywhere, which includes all of my documents and data. For example, I can reach my Keepass database from all devices without any need for clumsy synchronization or a third-party "cloud" provider.
2. I view my security camera streams by reaching my on-premises NVR from anywhere.
3. I can print to home from anywhere.
4. My entire media library is available from anywhere.
5. I can reach my family's home intranet web-app from all of my devices (e.g., my phone), natively.
It's true that all of this could be done in a remote desktop window, but it would be less smooth and less convenient. E.g., using Keepass in a remote desktop window wouldn't be as convenient as running it locally (with the kdbx loaded from the file server).
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15586997 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15586997
- atmosx 9y agoWhat's your upstream speed at home?
- linker3000 9y agoI have pretty much the same functionality, including the printing, plus I have a home IoT setup. Through the MQTT app on my phone I can view and control the home heating, see the output from various sensors (like house temp and outside temp) and control some of the lights - all without having to send my data to a commercial product's cloud service to manage things. The IoT hub is an Atom-based Mini ITX machine running Ubuntu server, Mosquitto (MQTT message broker), Node-Red (MQTT message handler) and Home Assistant to manage some of the sensors and automation (although Node-Red does most of the work). I'll probably move the whole lot to a Raspberry Pi at some time. This setup is more of a base to exercise my electronics hobby skills than a serious attempt to automate everything - for example, the home heating IoT stuff overlays (rather than replaces) the traditional electronic timer and temperature sensors on the heating/hot water system, so if the IoT cleverness goes offline, watchdog relays will return control to the old timer/sensors. VPN access is through a Draytek xDSL Router (2860) - they have good inbuilt VPN support.
- GordonS 9y agoWhat protocol do you use to access your Keepass database from your mobile device? Are you always connected to your VPN on your mobile device? How much network traffic overhead does it add?
- Fnoord 9y agoPlus, what's the performance impact on your smartphone? Battery life, available resources.
- anderspitman 9y agoI've been using syncthing for my keepass file and media sync. Love it.